John Dewey

"To say that a thing is right and good is a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion."

"Experience has to be lived forward, but can only be understood backward."

"The cure for industrialism is not sentimentalism but more and better industrialism."

"I believe that the individual who is to be educated is a social individual."

"The capacity for growth determines the capacity for happiness."

"Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of All or Nothing."

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think."

"In the broadest sense, any subject is good as long as it is taught in such a way as to generate within the learner the desire to continue learning."

"As a rule an aim thought of apart from its means is vague and empty."

"A philosophy which does not grow out of the history which it seeks to interpret is sterile."

"The only real limitation upon our realization of our hopes is our faith in taking concrete action to realize them."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

"To me faith means not worrying."

"The most significant question we can ask is: what problem are we trying to solve?"

"Purposefulness finds its adequate criterion and test in the continuity and reconstruction of experience."

"The school supplies a simplified environment."

"Objects are not just things. They are the meanings that things have in relation to human purposes."

"A teacher engaged in the sacred duty of education is not thereby separated from the community or society."

"Leisure is a mental and spiritual attitude—it is a free receptivity to new ideas."

"The school is also the beginning of moral training."

"When one person feels isolated from another person, a lack of understanding occurs."

"The life of a scientific investigator involves the exercise of both curiosity and the ability to imagine."

"Art is as essential to a full human life as is science or anything else."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Human nature in its entirety is in need of education."

"The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth."

"There is no greater power than the power of becoming fully and authentically ourselves."

"The deepest urge in human beings is the desire to be significant."

"Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living."